134 Annual Report of the Council. 



"On the Advisableness of Improving Natural Knowledge," 

 "A Liberal Education and Where to Find It," "On 

 the Educational Value of the Natural History Sciences," 

 and "The School Boards: What they can do and what 

 they may do." This last especially shows what careful 

 study he had given to the question in all its details. He 

 felt very strongly the importance of science in elementary 

 education, but not to the exclusion of other important 

 matters. "There are," he says, "other forms of culture 

 besides physical science, and I should be profoundly sorry 

 to . . . observe a tendency to starve or cripple literary 

 or aesthetic culture for the sake of science. . . . What 

 I mean is, that no boy or girl should leave school without 

 possessing a grasp of the general character of science, 

 and without having been disciplined more or less in the 

 methods of all sciences." It is impossible in our space 

 to refer to all the important appointments that have been 

 held by Professor Huxley; but, amongst others, he has 

 been Fullerian Professor of Physiology to the Royal 

 Institution, Hunterian Professor of Comparative Anatomy 

 and Physiology to the Royal College of Surgeons, Croonian 

 Lecturer to the Royal Society, Secretary and also Presi- 

 dent of the Geological and Royal Societies, President of the 

 British Association, Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, 

 Rede Lecturer at Cambridge, Romanes Lecturer at Oxford, 

 and was finally made a member of Her Majesty's Privy 

 Council. His University distinctions included the LL.D. 

 degree of Dublin, Edinburgh, and Cambridge. 



In him we have lost not only a man head and 

 shoulders above most of his fellows in intellectual endow- 

 ments, but, what is of more consequence, one who had 

 the courage of his convictions, and whose candour and 

 honesty have been beyond suspicion even in this critical 



and censorious age.* W. E. H. 



* I am indebted to the proprietors of the Manchester Guardian for 

 permission to reproduce this notice.— W. E. H. 



